Blaze YC Application

Profile updated October 19, 2026Winter 2022Active

San Francisco, CA, USA

Blaze went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2022
Industry: B2B
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Lauren RothwellFounder
Chirag MahapatraFounder

What Blaze does

Blaze uses AI and automation to scan millions of online signals to help modern companies target the right potential customers as soon as they show interest.

Blaze's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Blaze, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Blaze

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Marketing automation for the modern world

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Blaze to automatically scan millions of online signals and alert sales and marketing teams when a potential customer shows buying interest. Our AI filters noise and surfaces the right prospects in real time so modern B2B companies can engage at the exact moment of opportunity.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our target customers and technical talent reside. It keeps us close to the pulse of B2B SaaS and marketing technology.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Blaze YC application?

No. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Blaze's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Blaze would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted. Y Combinator does not publish most applications.